Expertise

Turgis has expertise in the following fields:

Risk Management and Due Diligence

• Financial and technical due diligence investigations
• Competent Persons and Independent Engineer Reports
• Disaster risk management
• Insurance risk profiling
• Insurance claim support
• Accident and incident investigations
• Risk assessment studies, facilitation and training
• Mine documentation systems (Codes of Practice, procedures, equipment specifications and training documentation)
• Safety compliance audits

Mining Operations

• Independent review of short and long term mining plans
• Rock, men and material transport systems and logistics of mining operations
• Analysis of production obstacles
• Application of management information systems
• Independent technical, operational and safety audits
• Workshop design and facilitation
• Mine simulation and optimization

Geology and Mining Engineering

• Mining geology and mineral resource management
• Design and review of mining layouts and extraction systems
• Technical and economic feasibility studies
• Mine production planning
• Men, material and rock conveying systems
• Production manning
• Equipment specification and selection

Underground Environment

• Design and optimization of cooling and ventilation strategies
• Trouble shooting in operational systems
• Technically innovative cooling and ventilation systems
• Engineering of cooling distribution networks
• Strategies for flammable gas and fire control
• Emergency procedures and escape strategies
• Mine occupational health and safety management

Rock Engineering

• Local and regional support strategies
• Backfill systems evaluation
• Selection and specification of support components
• Seismic interpretation and design

Technology Selection & Implementation

• Technology searches
• Technology forecasting
• Technology assessment and selection
• Management of technology research and development
• Planning for technology transfer and implementation

Project Management

• Management of capital projects
• EPCM

Environmental Engineering

• Compilation of EIA and EMP documents
• Generation of biophysical and social base lines

Impact assessments

• Design of mitigation measures
• Environmental and social management plans
• Sustainable development strategies for mining

Mechanical & Electrical Engineering

• Mine surface infrastructure design and engineering
• Hydropower, compressed air, pumping, service water and backfill system design and engineering
• Pumping installations
• Ergonomics engineering
• Static and dynamic design of fluid reticulation systems (air/gas, water, slurry and mud)
• Water treatment works
• Shaft systems (vertical, incline and decline)
• Winder engineering
• Control, instrumentation and automation
• Flameproof equipment and electrical safety
• Power electrical engineering
• Load profiles, energy management and tariff studies
• Specialized equipment development and evaluation

Process engineering

• Process plant design, reviews and due diligence
• Metallurgical input to feasibility studies
• Pyrometallurgy
• Hydrometallurgy
• Minerals covered : gold, PGM’s, uranium, diamonds, copper, nickel, cobalt, lead-zinc, iron ore, coal, manganese, chrome, beach sands, steel making.

Turgis uses a range of proprietary software including:

• Mine 2-4D
• Whittle
• Caesar II
• Arena
• Show Flow
• Impulse
• Helix Delta T